Couscous. Can’t-Miss Festival and Origins of Mexican Couscous

I’m green with envy.  I would give anything to be in Los Angeles on the 16th and 17th October, for the  couscous festival, run by Susan Ji-Young Park, a frequent…

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Update Postopolis 10 Mexico City

Down on my knees grinding pineapple. A breeze compared to grains. Well, I talked about grains and cities at Postopolis 10.  About why Mexico had particular problems with its chosen…

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Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico

You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish.  Then the more you poke…

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